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I was thinking today about how, even though the civil war is 143 years behind us, the overlapping generations provide some connection with that event. My Granmother is 83 years old and has vivid memories of two of her family members who were veterens of the, as she calls it, “The War Between the States”. So there are a number of people alive today who knew some of these people. I suppose making that connection is stretching it somewhat thin but for someone like me who loves history and fnds this war facsinating, I think this is amazing.Do any of you know anyone like this?
That sounds pretty interesting. But how did that come to be? I'm trying to figure that out in my head. If your grandmother was born around 1925 and was about 10 by the time she remembered stories, any Civil War vets would have had to be at least 80 years old….and then they'd have been about 10 years old during the war. Or maybe they were 90 when they talked to your mother (20 years old during the war). Is that how it happened?
She nevr really mentioned there age. (I'll have to ask) But remember there were a lot of CW Veterens at the last Gettysburg reunion in 1938, the average age-95Also it was very common for youths younger then 18 to join.
An old gentleman in our church is 95 years old. He remembers his grandfather (or maybe it was his father)talking about serving in the Confederate army. I recently took the old fellow to a meeting of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
I remember my Great-grandfather talking about his father's stories from serving in the Union army when I was a kid. My Great-grandfather died in 1978 at 105 and made some history himself, he was one of the original Sooners in Oklahoma during the Land Rush of 1889. That is how we got the family farm.
